shorters riding it down hard, page-118

A list of words to describe what the mining boom will bring at the end for Australia:
and the workingclass will loose all their saved up nest eggs in the form of in the "Super Invesment"

bankrupt, beggared, bust*, cleaned out*, destitute, dirt poor*, flat broke*, impoverished, in debt, indebted, indigent, insolvent, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, ruined, stone broke*, stony, strapped*, tap city, tapped out, wiped out

bankrupt, busted, destitute, dirt poor, flat broke, impoverished, indigent, in need of, needy, poor, poverty-stricken

bankrupt, beggared, bereft, busted, dead broke*, deficient, depleted, deprived of, devoid of, dirt poor*, divested, drained, empty, exhausted, flat*, flat broke*, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, insolvent, lacking, melted out, moneyless, necessitous, needy, on breadline, penniless, penurious, pinched, played out*, poor, poverty-stricken, stony, strapped, stripped, tapped out, totaled, wiped out*, without

My personal favourites... dead broke , proverty-stricken and without